[GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:02:45 -0400
Gron Arthur via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for an easy way to backup data? What's good software to
> use, preferably open-source, better if it had a GUI?

   Why not buy a second hard drive?  My nightly backup is a 4TB drive. "Personal" means the data does not leave my house.  I export my backups periodically to a 50GB Blu-Ray disc.  My backup is a Bourne shell script that eventually calls up tar.  
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